there used to be a sport played on ice, they called it hockey, i think. if you think that can’t happen tobaseball, tell that to the next teary eyed Canadian you meet.

So Cver, i see your outrage, and raise you some rage.

there’s market forces, then there’s gauging. lots of our fellow fans welcome our corporate overlords, which is a good thing, cause they’ll be sitting right next to them (should they be able to afford it).

Baseball in NY for those of you who are under 30 and haven’t read about it’s history has all of these years, until rather recently been affordable for blue collar workers. When you folks talk about avg. NYC salaries being 100,000 clams, what’s wrong with you?! So, some are making a half mil and those cleaning the toilets are making 20 thou. What the hell? So, a janitor cleaning the school that some rich kid goes to shouldn’t be allowed to bring his family to the ballpark on a Saturday afternoon, because of “market forces”. NO – DAMN IT! This is baseball and I say, and it’s me Cver talking now – that any of you who think that these folks should be excluded from seeing Met games are out of touch with the real world and I must say unfortunately “Shame on you”.

Society is becoming more and more divided into the haves and have-nots in a way not ever seen before. I’m not talking about affording a Harvard education. I’m talking about going to a baseball game in the upper decks with a packed lunch. What’s wrong with all of you? I’m not trying to be personal here. This isn’t addressed at anyone in particular. I’ve just read a lot of posts here that are saying that if you don’t have at least 100 dollars to shell out, don’t even bother coming to a Mets game in 09. It was just last season, I think somebody wrote that there were 5 buck seats at Shea. This is an unnacceptable sea change. I think it is horrible that MLB and the Wilpons and NYC are allowing this. I think it is nearly unforgivable to see all of my dear buddies on here act so apathetic and so accepting of what is happening.

I do understand that there maybe isn’t a lot that can be done. But one thing you all can do is protest, write letters, go to less games, and if you are so huge a fan, at least threaten to the Mets to go to less games. Probably none of this will make a difference. My point is that so many of you are practically endorsing these ticket hikes and greeted the new stadium with less seats with open arms. Look, I don’t think it matters if you can afford it, it matters whether the folks that could go to a game 5 years ago will still be able to go in 5 years from now. Sorry if my comments seem over-the-top, but the passivity over this that I’m seeing here upsets me. From many of you, I don’t see even a hint of the great distaste I see for this new policy of exclusiion that is being hurled upon society and in this case NY baseball fans.

However, setting up a side thread might be usefu since any stadium reference in any post devolves into this same old tit for tat..

It is getting old that we have to rehash these same points every time there is a post about citi field on this site.

Can you make this happen Matt?

For good seats they are asking for something like $50K PER for PSL’s….just for the right to buy tickets. Now THAT is eliminating ‘real’ fans. That is catrering to just the rich. Theres no way around that. You’re not gonna find 3-5 guys to split that up with. You are forced to give up your seats you’ve owned forever. So please stop with the ’screwing the avg’ guy speech from here on out. Oh, some of the fans of the Seattle Sonics would like to meet you outside for a quick second. They paid a few hundred mil for renovations a few years back and are now being told if they wont pay for a $500 mil arena the team is gonzo….now THAT is screwing the avg guy…..

Someone from the side of ‘The Force’ PLEASE reply on this one so us on the ‘Dark Sider’ can point out how and where you are wrong….